For those who do a bit of surfcasting

[Road kill]

I've got a Viking PF400 kayak.
Been fishing and hunting from them for years,Firth of Thames,Manukau,West coast out from Port Waikato,,,and all the rivers an lakes.
I stay away from the Waitamata,,,it looks like a tupperware party over there most good weekends.
I get out 8kms off the port now an then, but off shore winds means it's only really 2-3 times a year for that mission.
Currently saving for a dedicated sea kayak so I can paddle to Gt Barrier,Stewart island ect ect,,but the $4500 required is proving a bit of a challenge.
Choice fish them Elephants,,,one day for sure

[98tls]

Anyone recommend a good place closish to Christchurch to chase these beasties?

http://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rct...Q6rEy8yxsGEQQwAm sure there will be other places to mate.

[Coolz]

At the Tall Ships regatta in Russell last year, I met a sixty year old Canadian lady who was preparing to kayak from the Bay of Islands to Tauranga. Made me feel a bit of a whimp.

[98tls]

At the Tall Ships regatta in Russell last year, I met a sixty year old Canadian lady who was preparing to kayak from the Bay of Islands to Tauranga. Made me feel a bit of a whimp.

If it helps ive never met her and she makes me feel like a wimp.

[AllanB]

Waikuki Beach pulls in a few Elephants the old salties tell me. Mostly friggen sharks though.

I take the lad off to Diamond Harbour wharf with the rods quite often - just a bit of fun for the boy, dog fish, yellow eyes mullets, spotties and once he pulled up a small kowhai.

Birdlings Flat used to pull out cod but it is hit and miss out there now.



What you running on that XR? 19's?

[JimO]

Currently saving for a dedicated sea kayak so I can paddle to Gt Barrier,Stewart island ect ect,,but the $4500 required is proving a bit of a challenge.
Choice fish them Elephants,,,one day for sure

having been to Stewart Island on a big boat that was almost standing on its end in the swells i wouldnt be going out in a kayak

[george formby]

At the Tall Ships regatta in Russell last year, I met a sixty year old Canadian lady who was preparing to kayak from the Bay of Islands to Tauranga. Made me feel a bit of a whimp.

One of my customers, a Scandinavian guy is in the Bay for season guiding. Kayak mad. He paddled from Raglan to Gisborne via Cook straight. On his travels he met a couple who are currently spending a year circumnavigating both Islands.... their prefence is to camp on remote parts of the coast. He's guiding because they really took the wind out of sails as it were.
A guy in Whangarei, Stephen Tapp, fishes for Hapuka off his Kayak and I know of a guy in Tutukaka who fishes for Marlin off his.

I also know of a guy circumnavigating the planet on a Postie bike go figure..

[98tls]

What you running on that XR? 19's?

18s mate,and a cat.

[Road kill]

having been to Stewart Island on a big boat that was almost standing on its end in the swells i wouldnt be going out in a kayak

Trust me,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I know what I'm doing.

I'm going on a different day to you.





Plus,,it's been done before.

[Road kill]

One of my customers, a Scandinavian guy is in the Bay for season guiding. Kayak mad. He paddled from Raglan to Gisborne via Cook straight. On his travels he met a couple who are currently spending a year circumnavigating both Islands.... their prefence is to camp on remote parts of the coast. He's guiding because they really took the wind out of sails as it were.
A guy in Whangarei, Stephen Tapp, fishes for Hapuka off his Kayak and I know of a guy in Tutukaka who fishes for Marlin off his.

I also know of a guy circumnavigating the planet on a Postie bike go figure..

Stephen lives in Matamata.

His Whangarei puka spot is close to 10kms off shore and he puts in 30-40km days on a regular basis,,,on a sit on top.

Put the guy in a sit inside sea kayak and he'd be capable of 80-100km days easy,,,,frigg'in legend

[AllanB]

Reckon the cat makes it go faster?

[SlowHand]

One of my customers, a Scandinavian guy is in the Bay for season guiding. Kayak mad. He paddled from Raglan to Gisborne via Cook straight. On his travels he met a couple who are currently spending a year circumnavigating both Islands.... their prefence is to camp on remote parts of the coast. He's guiding because they really took the wind out of sails as it were.
A guy in Whangarei, Stephen Tapp, fishes for Hapuka off his Kayak and I know of a guy in Tutukaka who fishes for Marlin off his.

I also know of a guy circumnavigating the planet on a Postie bike go figure..

You have poor friends...

[98tls]

Reckon the cat makes it go faster?

No idea,can say without doubt though that said cat is evil...i shit you not.

[ellipsis]

...i walked the last 20 miles to Whangaroa a lot of years ago, after flying to Orcland and getting a bus out to Kaeo , there was no connection to get there so I walked...real keen to catch a kingi off the rocks...got picked up by a maori bloke on his way to Whangaroa...when i got in his vehicle he said,'your'e too pink to be walking around up here'... his son showed me the foolproof way to get a john dory for tea under the wharf...never got my kingi off the rocks but i got a trip out to the heads to a rock that held big kingis, a local gamefish charter boat owner was taking his mate out to try and jig some huge kingfish that had been seen out there and i had been lucky enough to have a chat earlier that day to an older woman on the wharf when i was catching some live bait..."my son will take you out", she said. " He'll need a few bucks for fuel"...$50.00... the bloke who was wanting a 6kg NZ record for a kingi missed out but he hooked up on a few smaller kingis...i floated a live bait under a balloon and hooked my first kingfish...small, 12kg, and a really fucking idiot mako that thought it was a clown at a circus before it spooled me...the maori bloke who picked me up was the one and same bloke who cut the tree down ...funny ole world..

[Road kill]

...i walked the last 20 miles to Whangaroa a lot of years ago, after flying to Orcland and getting a bus out to Kaeo , there was no connection to get there so I walked...real keen to catch a kingi off the rocks...got picked up by a maori bloke on his way to Whangaroa...when i got in his vehicle he said,'your'e too pink to be walking around up here'... his son showed me the foolproof way to get a john dory for tea under the wharf...never got my kingi off the rocks but i got a trip out to the heads to a rock that held big kingis, a local gamefish charter boat owner was taking his mate out to try and jig some huge kingfish that had been seen out there and i had been lucky enough to have a chat earlier that day to an older woman on the wharf when i was catching some live bait..."my son will take you out", she said. " He'll need a few bucks for fuel"...$50.00... the bloke who was wanting a 6kg NZ record for a kingi missed out but he hooked up on a few smaller kingis...i floated a live bait under a balloon and hooked my first kingfish...small, 12kg, and a really fucking idiot mako that thought it was a clown at a circus before it spooled me...the maori bloke who picked me up was the one and same bloke who cut the tree down ...funny ole world..

People ya' meet when ya' don't have a gun huh !


Good on the fish though,,,walkin's worked for me too.